Overview

• The film is set to hit theaters on July 18, 2025, and brings back Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray Bronson alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt as Julie James.
• Prinze Jr. and Hewitt describe their new scenes as the best work they’ve shared on camera and liken their reunion to a high school reunion built on trust.
• Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson has intensified the sequel’s horror with markedly more gore and meticulously staged kills compared to the original.
• The plot follows a group of twenty-somethings who cause a fatal car accident in Southport, North Carolina, and return to survivors Julie and Ray when a masked killer strikes a year later.
• In the sequel, Julie James has become a trauma professor, deepening her character’s evolution and anchoring the franchise’s continuity.